Best Personal Injury Lawyers in Saint Peters, MO

This recent $120,000 settlement shows how the large punitive damage verdicts you hear about in the news have an impact that go well beyond the parties to that particular lawsuit. These verdicts serve an important societal function. Not only do large punitive damage verdicts punish bad corporate actors from making unsafe or unhealthy products, in Missouri some of that money is put aside from those verdicts to help people with bad injuries and low limits recover something. My client lost her log as a result of circulation issues after breaking it in an accident while a passenger when her car crashed due to an uninsured motorist last year. I had a difficult time getting the insurance company reversing their initial liability decision. Once they did, we settled for the $50,000 uninsured limits, which was not nearly enough to compensate my client. I obtained a $300,000 settlement for my client in the Missouri Tort Victims Compensation Fund, which is funded by punitive damage verdicts. This year the fund paid settlements out at 40%, allowing my client to recover much needed additional compensation.